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gammoning
English
Etymology
gammon +? -ing
Noun
gammoning (plural gammonings)
- Rope lashings on the bowsprit of a boat.
Translations
Verb
gammoning
- present participle of gammon
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gammon
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: g?'m?n, IPA(key): /??æm?n/
- Rhymes: -æm?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English [Term?], from Old French gambon (compare modern French jambon (“ham”)), from gambe (“leg”), from Late Latin *gamba, from Ancient Greek ????? (kámp?), from Proto-Indo-European *kamp- (“to bend; crooked”). Doublet of jamon.
Noun
gammon (countable and uncountable, plural gammons)
- A cut of quick-cured pork leg.
Translations
Verb
gammon (third-person singular simple present gammons, present participle gammoning, simple past and past participle gammoned)
- To cure bacon by salting.
Etymology 2
Probably a special use of Middle English gamen (“game”).
Noun
gammon (countable and uncountable, plural gammons)
- (backgammon) A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone.
- (rare) Backgammon (the game itself).
Related terms
- backgammon
Verb
gammon (third-person singular simple present gammons, present participle gammoning, simple past and past participle gammoned)
- (backgammon) To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone).
Translations
Etymology 3
Perhaps related to the first etymology, with reference to tying up a ham.
Noun
gammon (plural gammons)
- (nautical) A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning).
Verb
gammon (third-person singular simple present gammons, present participle gammoning, simple past and past participle gammoned)
- To lash with ropes (on a ship).
Translations
Etymology 4
Perhaps a special use of the word from etymology 2.
Noun
gammon
- (dated) Chatter, ridiculous nonsense.
- 1911: Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
- He swore that all other religions were gammon,
And wore out his knees in the worship of Mammon.
- He swore that all other religions were gammon,
- 1911: Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Verb
gammon (third-person singular simple present gammons, present participle gammoning, simple past and past participle gammoned)
- (colloquial, dated, transitive) To deceive; to lie plausibly to.
Etymology 5
Gained popularity in 2017 (in the phrase "Great Wall of Gammon", likening the referents' rosy complexions to gammon (“ham, bacon”)), although the metaphor was in use earlier: the BBC points to a 2016 use of "gammon face". Not related to the "gammon tendency" in Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby, where the word means "nonsense".
Noun
gammon (countable and uncountable, plural gammons)
- (neologism, derogatory, Britain) A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively.
Further reading
- George Pierpoint (14 May 2018) , “Why your social media is covered in gammon”, in BBC News?[1], BBC
See also
- Karen
References
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